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It was found in the said report that the photos of the girls, who were made to appear before the commission, did not match the images of the girls appearing in the said video." [ 9 ] In August 2018, on the order of the Supreme Court, the Kohistan police registered a first information report for the alleged honour killing of the five girls ...
The Shafia family murders took place on June 30, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with their father's first wife Rona Muhammad Omar, 52 (all of Afghan origin), were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills lock of the Rideau Canal, [1] after they were reported missing. [2]
Honour killings in Pakistan [1] are known locally as karo-kari (Urdu: کاروکاری). [2] According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, over 470 cases of honour killings were reported in Pakistan in 2021. But human rights defenders estimate that around 1,000 women are murdered in the name of honour every year.
Ghazal "Mona" Heydari (24 December 2004 – 5 February 2022) was an Iranian Arab teenage girl who was beheaded in Ahvaz, Iran in an honour killing by her husband. Mona and her husband were first cousins. Pictures and videos of her husband, Sajjad Heydari, smiling while carrying her head, caused widespread outrage in Iran. [1]
In its report, "Pakistan: Honor Killings of Girls and Women", [183] published in September 1999, Amnesty International criticized governmental indifference and called for state responsibility in protecting human rights of female victims. To elaborate, Amnesty strongly requested the Government of Pakistan to take 1) legal, 2) preventive, and 3 ...
Palestina Zein Isa, named after Palestine, was born on December 3, 1972, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. [2] The youngest of seven siblings, she lived in a southern portion of the City of St. Louis in an apartment complex, [3] and attended Dewey Junior High School [4] and Roosevelt High School in St. Louis.
Honour killing victim Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed ( Punjabi and Urdu : شفیلیہ افتخار احمد ; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in an honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept a forced marriage .
Around 2017, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Ric Curtis led a team that analyzed honor killing statistics from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and made a proxy estimate for the United States based on that, resulting in an estimated 23–27 annual honor killings in the U.S.